Mon., March 22: Getting Some Background on Your Topic
Part 1: Catching Everyone Up - Connecting with Your Project Partners
1. Make sure you have joined the Grown Up Digital Ning - the NetGenEd 2010 Group and the ISA Group
2. Respond to any friend requests or messages you have received - check your invites and inbox (top right) and your comment wall (bottom)
3. We have a new school partner in Pakistan! - Look for your project teammates on the Team Matrix and send them friend requests on the Ning
4. Make sure you are a member of the Flat Classroom Project Wiki and the NetGenEd Wiki
5. Be sure your name, location, and a link to your Ning profile is listed on your Topic Wiki (tech trend) and also on your Team Wiki (A.2, B.4, C.6, D.8, etc.)
It should look like this: Honor Moorman, San Antonio, Texas, USA
6. Be sure you have published an introductory blog post on the Grown Up Digital Ning with appropriate links to the 21cGL wiki and the ISA website
7. Be sure your blog post is tagged: isa, introduction, netgened2010 - and any other key word that seems significant
8. Join the group on the Grown Up Digital Ning for your technology topic and/or project team. If there is not a group for your tech topic yet, please create one
Part 2: Learning about Keyword Searches - Finding Educational Videos on Tech Topics
Mini-Lesson: Identifying key words for Internet searches
1. Find key words in the 2010 Horizon Report for your topic - make a list of your key words for future use
Google Demo #1
Search Options
Option: Wonder wheel
Option: Related searches
2. Use the Google Wonder Wheel and Related Searches to find additional key words and add them to your list
Google Demo #2
Phrase Search
Include an exact phrase > Put quotation marks around your search terms > e.g. "The Beatles" or "George Washington"
Caution: using phrase search may cause you to miss some results by accident, for example, "Alexander Bell" will omit pages that contain "Alexander G. Bell"
Domain Search
Search within one specific website > Include the word "site" and a colon followed by the site name > site:ted.com or site:fora.tv
4. Watch the video and take notes on key ideas as well as your thoughts about the video
5. Tag your video on Diigo and share it to the NetGenEd group
6. Post to your topic group on the Ning: a message about the video including your notes and a link to the video
Wed., March 24: Diving in to Your Research
Housekeeping
1. Clean up your Diigo tags! Please make sure what you have already tagged in Diigo is using the correct format which is one word:
mobile
opencontent
ebooks
augmentedreality
gesturebased
visualdata
If the content comes straight from the 2010 Horizon Report you must also add the tag hz10
You can also tag what it is! ie. (video)
Gathering Resources
2. Go back to the 2010 Horizon Report for your topic
3. Take a look at the examples of your technology In Practice and the articles listed for Further Reading at the bottom of the page
4. Decide which you want to read later, tag and save them in Diigo and share them to the NetGenEd group
Note: If you're trying to share a pdf like the Educause "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." you will need to bookmark the source page, not the pdf itself.
Mini-Lesson: Determining the validity, reliability, and credibility of a website
Google Demo #3
Option: Timeline
Option: Specific date range
Domain Search
Specifiy a whole class of sites > Include the word "site" and a colon followed by the desired domain type > site:.edu or site:.gov
Evaluating and Sharing Resources
5. Practice using the Web Site Evaluation Form to analyze one website you find related to your topic
6. Show your work to Ms. Allen or Ms. Moorman - once you have "passed" this step, you may proceed
7. Search for recent, relevant, and reliable information about your technology trend
8. Tag and save to Diigo and share to the NetGenEd Group
Fri., March 26: Reading the NetGenEd Community Research
Last class, we cleaned up our tags and practiced evaluating websites.
So what's the big deal about tagging? (and we're not talking about graffiti)
When you tag something and share it to the Diigo community, you are "recommending" it to others - that's why it's important to evaluate it first
When you share it to the NetGenEd group, you need to use the standard tags, or "taxonomy" - hierarchical system of labeling & categorizing
To help out the larger, global community, you should add other tags that would be helpful to people in finding these resources - you get to decide which keywords to use as part of the "folksonomy"
What is Tagging?
Why Tag?
So this is a new thing? - Yes, it's part of the Information R/evolution
As you revisit your research findings today, please choose additional tags that will help the global community find these resources.
Google Demo #4
As you are reading the articles you've found, you may come across words you aren't familiar with or questions you need to get answered in order to understand what you are reading. Here are 2 Google search tricks that can help you . . .
Define
Fill in the blanks
Fill in the Blanks: Find pages with information to fill in missing words > Use an asterisk (*) as a placeholder for any unknown terms
Related Search
When you find a really helpful article in your research, how can you find other like it? - Related search!
Find web pages that are similar or related to the url > Include the word "related" followed by a colon and the url of the site
Example #1: You discover that Wired News is a great source for your technology research, and you'd like to find other similar sources . . .
Search [related:wired.com] to find other comparable online publications
Example #2: You search the New York Times for articles on electronic books and education [site:nytimes.com "electronic books" education] and find one article in your search results that's exactly what your looking for. Try putting the url of that article in a related search to find other articles like it from other publications beyond the New York Times.
Note: If you still have the original search results list open in Google, you can just click the word "similar" next to the listing of the article
Explore the NetGenEd Community Research to Learn about Your Technology Trend
1. Read the information people have found and saved to Diigo to become an expert on your technology - use the tags in the NetGenEd group to find community resources on your topic 2. Add sticky notes and comments and/or use your own system of note-taking - be sure to keep track of where your information comes from, so you can cite it
3. If you come across words you don't know or you have questions you need answered as you read, try the "define" and "fill in the blanks" tricks on Google
4. After you've read a particularly helpful article, post observations, findings, ideas, and/or questions about it to your topic group on the Grown Up Digital Ning - don't forget to hyperlink the article to your post! On Tuesday, you will be expected to . . .
5. Synthesize an overview of your technology and contribute to the "Overview" section on your topic page of the NetGenEd Wiki If you have classmates working on the same technology, you can work together, but be sure each person gets to post something to the wiki. It's okay to revise and edit other people's work a little as you make your contribution, but be respectful of the time and effort they have already put in.
Tues., March 30: Synthesizing Your Information
Mini-Lesson: Co-authoring informative text on the wiki
Take a look at how a Wikipedia article gets developed by numerous co-authors and co-editors
You will be contributing to your topic wiki and team wiki pages in much the same way
Wikipedia Detective - Answer these questions to uncover how a Wikipedia page is created and developed over time
Start by finding the ISA page on Wikipedia
1. When was the ISA page first created?
2. Who (username) created it?
3. How many sentences were in the very first version?
4. How many contributors (approximate #) have added to the page since then?
5. What is the most recent addition?
6. What is the most recent change?
7. How many citations (footnote #s) are there?
8. If you wanted to learn more about ISA (in addition to following the hyperlinks in the article), what 2 sections would you look at? Now switch to the Michael Jackson entry on Wikipedia
9. What is one of the hot topics of debate on this page?
10. What guidelines have been established by the Wikipedia community to deal with this kind of controversy?
Putting It All Together
Synthesize an overview of your technology and contribute to the "Overview" section on your topic page of the
If you have classmates working on the same technology, you can work together, but be sure each person gets to post something to the wiki. It's okay to revise and edit other people's work a little as you make your contribution, but be respectful of the time and effort they have already put in.
You are expected to link your topic overview to all the sub-wikis (team pages)
See the Personal Web overview from last year's project for a good example of linking and citing
A Few More Thoughts on the Role of Tagging and Being a Good Global/Digital Citizen . . .
"It's not information overload. It's filter failure."
~Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (professor at NYU)
“The solution to information overload is more information” in the form of “metadata”
~David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous (fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
Users of LibraryThing.com tagged 17 million books with 22 million tags in 2 years
The Library of Congress classified 20 million books in 200 years
“Nobody is as smart as everybody” ~Kevin Kelly Collective intelligence, the wisdom of crowds, the smart mob
Contest at a country fair to guess the weight of an ox: average guess 1,197; actual weight 1,198 pounds ~James Surowiecki,Wisdom of Crowds(prof. at Columbia and columnist for The New Yorker )//
How does the use of multiple tags help us find what we are looking for? Visit Tag Galaxy and keep adding tags to make smaller and smaller "planets"
What else can tags enable us to do collectively? (See the TED Talk below, starting at minute 3:40)
How can you help add tags to images on the web? - Play the Google Image Labeler game!
Thurs., April 1: Drawing on Community Knowledge about the Essential Questions
Check your Work from Last Time: Putting It All Together
Synthesize an overview of your technology and contribute to the "Overview" section on your topic page of the NetGenEd Wiki
If you have classmates working on the same technology, you can work together, but be sure each person gets to post something to the wiki. It's okay to revise and edit other people's work a little as you make your contribution, but be respectful of the time and effort they have already put in.
You are expected to link your topic overview to all the sub-wikis (team pages)
See the Personal Web overview from last year's project for a good example of linking and citing
Mini-Lesson: Creating Citations Correctly on the NetGenEd Wiki
We are doing this just like they do on Wikipedia!
You will need to use a tiny bit of html code to make it work
You don't have to memorize, just read the directions here very carefully and follow the example provided - ask a classmate or teacher if you are having trouble
Prepare for Presentations and Class Brainstorming next week
1. Create a blank template based on your Team wiki page - your classmates will be adding in ideas for you
Find the Essential Question and other subheadings on your Team Page on the NetGenEd Wiki
Record your Essential Question at the top of your poster and place the subheadings down the page to create a paper version of your team wiki page
Leave plenty of room for good ideas - everyone in your class will be helping to fill this in next week
2. Together with your classmates who are researching the same technology trend, prepare a 5 minute overview of that technology
You will be sharing your expertise about the technology next week so that you classmates can help you brainstorm what this means for education and for your particular topic/question
Tues., April 6: Teaching Each Other about the Technology Trends
Each small group presents an overview of their technology trend to the rest of the class - students take notes and begin brainstorming on a chart that looks like this:
Technology Trend
What this technology does, how it works, examples
How it might be used in education in the future
Mobile Computing (1 year or less)
Open Content (1 year or less)
Electronic Books (2-3 years)
Simple Augmented Reality (2-3 years)
Gesture-Based Computing (4-5 years)
Visual Data Analysis (4-5 years)
Thurs., April 8: Contributing Ideas about Each Other's Topics
Collaborative Brainstorming Gallery Walk
Visit each Essential Question around the room and contribute ideas in response to the questions and subheadings
Return to your own Essential Question
Read over your classmates' input
Contribute responses to the question and subtopics on your Team Page
Table of Contents
Mon., March 22: Getting Some Background on Your Topic
Part 1: Catching Everyone Up - Connecting with Your Project Partners
1. Make sure you have joined the Grown Up Digital Ning - the NetGenEd 2010 Group and the ISA Group2. Respond to any friend requests or messages you have received - check your invites and inbox (top right) and your comment wall (bottom)
3. We have a new school partner in Pakistan! - Look for your project teammates on the Team Matrix and send them friend requests on the Ning
4. Make sure you are a member of the Flat Classroom Project Wiki and the NetGenEd Wiki
5. Be sure your name, location, and a link to your Ning profile is listed on your Topic Wiki (tech trend) and also on your Team Wiki (A.2, B.4, C.6, D.8, etc.)
It should look like this: Honor Moorman, San Antonio, Texas, USA
6. Be sure you have published an introductory blog post on the Grown Up Digital Ning with appropriate links to the 21cGL wiki and the ISA website
7. Be sure your blog post is tagged: isa, introduction, netgened2010 - and any other key word that seems significant
8. Join the group on the Grown Up Digital Ning for your technology topic and/or project team. If there is not a group for your tech topic yet, please create one
Part 2: Learning about Keyword Searches - Finding Educational Videos on Tech Topics
Mini-Lesson: Identifying key words for Internet searches
(using Semantic-Aware Applications from the 2009 Horizon Report as an example)1. Find key words in the 2010 Horizon Report for your topic - make a list of your key words for future use
Google Demo #1
Search Options
Option: Wonder wheel
Option: Related searches
2. Use the Google Wonder Wheel and Related Searches to find additional key words and add them to your list
Google Demo #2
Phrase Search
Include an exact phrase > Put quotation marks around your search terms > e.g. "The Beatles" or "George Washington"
Caution: using phrase search may cause you to miss some results by accident, for example, "Alexander Bell" will omit pages that contain "Alexander G. Bell"
Domain Search
Search within one specific website > Include the word "site" and a colon followed by the site name > site:ted.com or site:fora.tvOption: Video results
3. Using your key words, find at least one educational video related to your topic
Here are some great sites for educational videos:
TED Talks
Fora.TV
Academic Earth
Edublogs.tv
Vimeo
Here are some video aggregator sites:
TeacherTube
SchoolTube
WatchKnow
Vidque
4. Watch the video and take notes on key ideas as well as your thoughts about the video
5. Tag your video on Diigo and share it to the NetGenEd group
6. Post to your topic group on the Ning: a message about the video including your notes and a link to the video
Wed., March 24: Diving in to Your Research
Housekeeping
1. Clean up your Diigo tags! Please make sure what you have already tagged in Diigo is using the correct format which is one word:mobile
opencontent
ebooks
augmentedreality
gesturebased
visualdata
If the content comes straight from the 2010 Horizon Report you must also add the tag hz10
You can also tag what it is! ie. (video)
Gathering Resources
2. Go back to the 2010 Horizon Report for your topic3. Take a look at the examples of your technology In Practice and the articles listed for Further Reading at the bottom of the page
4. Decide which you want to read later, tag and save them in Diigo and share them to the NetGenEd group
7 Things You Should Know About . . .
Mobile Apps for LearningOpen Educational Resources
E-Books
Augmented Reality
[[Multi-Touchhttp:www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutMulti/162960 Interfaces|Multi-Touch Interfaces]]
Data Visualization
Note: If you're trying to share a pdf like the Educause "7 Things You Should Know About . . ." you will need to bookmark the source page, not the pdf itself.
Mini-Lesson: Determining the validity, reliability, and credibility of a website
Google Demo #3
Option: Timeline
Option: Specific date range
Domain Search
Specifiy a whole class of sites > Include the word "site" and a colon followed by the desired domain type > site:.edu or site:.govEvaluating and Sharing Resources
5. Practice using the Web Site Evaluation Form to analyze one website you find related to your topic6. Show your work to Ms. Allen or Ms. Moorman - once you have "passed" this step, you may proceed
7. Search for recent, relevant, and reliable information about your technology trend
8. Tag and save to Diigo and share to the NetGenEd Group
Fri., March 26: Reading the NetGenEd Community Research
Announcements
Look! Your work is posted on the official PBS Frontline: Digital Nation websitePlease consider voting for Ms. Moorman's entry for the PBS Teachers - Innovation Awards
Two Kinds of Tags: Taxonomy and Folksonomy
Last class, we cleaned up our tags and practiced evaluating websites.So what's the big deal about tagging? (and we're not talking about graffiti)
When you tag something and share it to the Diigo community, you are "recommending" it to others - that's why it's important to evaluate it first
When you share it to the NetGenEd group, you need to use the standard tags, or "taxonomy" - hierarchical system of labeling & categorizing
To help out the larger, global community, you should add other tags that would be helpful to people in finding these resources - you get to decide which keywords to use as part of the "folksonomy"
What is Tagging?
Why Tag?
So this is a new thing? - Yes, it's part of the Information R/evolution
As you revisit your research findings today, please choose additional tags that will help the global community find these resources.
Google Demo #4
As you are reading the articles you've found, you may come across words you aren't familiar with or questions you need to get answered in order to understand what you are reading. Here are 2 Google search tricks that can help you . . .
Define
Fill in the blanks
Fill in the Blanks: Find pages with information to fill in missing words > Use an asterisk (*) as a placeholder for any unknown terms
Related Search
When you find a really helpful article in your research, how can you find other like it? - Related search!Find web pages that are similar or related to the url > Include the word "related" followed by a colon and the url of the site
Example #1: You discover that Wired News is a great source for your technology research, and you'd like to find other similar sources . . .
Search [related:wired.com] to find other comparable online publications
Example #2: You search the New York Times for articles on electronic books and education [site:nytimes.com "electronic books" education] and find one article in your search results that's exactly what your looking for. Try putting the url of that article in a related search to find other articles like it from other publications beyond the New York Times.
Note: If you still have the original search results list open in Google, you can just click the word "similar" next to the listing of the article
Explore the NetGenEd Community Research to Learn about Your Technology Trend
1. Read the information people have found and saved to Diigo to become an expert on your technology - use the tags in the NetGenEd group to find community resources on your topic 2. Add sticky notes and comments and/or use your own system of note-taking - be sure to keep track of where your information comes from, so you can cite it3. If you come across words you don't know or you have questions you need answered as you read, try the "define" and "fill in the blanks" tricks on Google
4. After you've read a particularly helpful article, post observations, findings, ideas, and/or questions about it to your topic group on the Grown Up Digital Ning - don't forget to hyperlink the article to your post! On Tuesday, you will be expected to . . .
5. Synthesize an overview of your technology and contribute to the "Overview" section on your topic page of the NetGenEd Wiki If you have classmates working on the same technology, you can work together, but be sure each person gets to post something to the wiki. It's okay to revise and edit other people's work a little as you make your contribution, but be respectful of the time and effort they have already put in.
Tues., March 30: Synthesizing Your Information
Mini-Lesson: Co-authoring informative text on the wiki
Take a look at how a Wikipedia article gets developed by numerous co-authors and co-editorsYou will be contributing to your topic wiki and team wiki pages in much the same way
Wikipedia Detective - Answer these questions to uncover how a Wikipedia page is created and developed over time
Start by finding the ISA page on Wikipedia1. When was the ISA page first created?
2. Who (username) created it?
3. How many sentences were in the very first version?
4. How many contributors (approximate #) have added to the page since then?
5. What is the most recent addition?
6. What is the most recent change?
7. How many citations (footnote #s) are there?
8. If you wanted to learn more about ISA (in addition to following the hyperlinks in the article), what 2 sections would you look at?
Now switch to the Michael Jackson entry on Wikipedia
9. What is one of the hot topics of debate on this page?
10. What guidelines have been established by the Wikipedia community to deal with this kind of controversy?
Putting It All Together
A Few More Thoughts on the Role of Tagging and Being a Good Global/Digital Citizen . . .
"It's not information overload. It's filter failure."
~Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody (professor at NYU)
“The solution to information overload is more information” in the form of “metadata”
~David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous (fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
Users of LibraryThing.com tagged 17 million books with 22 million tags in 2 years
The Library of Congress classified 20 million books in 200 years
“Nobody is as smart as everybody” ~Kevin Kelly
Collective intelligence, the wisdom of crowds, the smart mob
Contest at a country fair to guess the weight of an ox: average guess 1,197; actual weight 1,198 pounds
~James Surowiecki, Wisdom of Crowds (prof. at Columbia and columnist for The New Yorker )//
How does the use of multiple tags help us find what we are looking for? Visit Tag Galaxy and keep adding tags to make smaller and smaller "planets"
What else can tags enable us to do collectively? (See the TED Talk below, starting at minute 3:40)
How can you help add tags to images on the web? - Play the Google Image Labeler game!
Thurs., April 1: Drawing on Community Knowledge about the Essential Questions
Check your Work from Last Time: Putting It All Together
Mini-Lesson: Creating Citations Correctly on the NetGenEd Wiki
We are doing this just like they do on Wikipedia!You will need to use a tiny bit of html code to make it work
You don't have to memorize, just read the directions here very carefully and follow the example provided - ask a classmate or teacher if you are having trouble
Prepare for Presentations and Class Brainstorming next week
1. Create a blank template based on your Team wiki page - your classmates will be adding in ideas for you
Find the Essential Question and other subheadings on your Team Page on the NetGenEd Wiki
Record your Essential Question at the top of your poster and place the subheadings down the page to create a paper version of your team wiki page
Leave plenty of room for good ideas - everyone in your class will be helping to fill this in next week
2. Together with your classmates who are researching the same technology trend, prepare a 5 minute overview of that technology
You will be sharing your expertise about the technology next week so that you classmates can help you brainstorm what this means for education and for your particular topic/question
Tues., April 6: Teaching Each Other about the Technology Trends
Each small group presents an overview of their technology trend to the rest of the class - students take notes and begin brainstorming on a chart that looks like this:
Thurs., April 8: Contributing Ideas about Each Other's Topics
Collaborative Brainstorming Gallery Walk
Visit each Essential Question around the room and contribute ideas in response to the questions and subheadings
Return to your own Essential Question
Read over your classmates' input
Contribute responses to the question and subtopics on your Team Page